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Science 30 January 2009:
Vol. 323. no. 5914, pp. 584 - 585
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168311
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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION:
Faulty Transmission

Audra J. Wolfe

Science on the Air
Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television
by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. 324 pp. $$27.50, £14.50. ISBN 9780226467597.
LaFollette explores how scientists, journalists, and the conflicting goals of education and entertainment interacted to shape the content and format of science broadcasts from the rise of radio to the early days of television.
The reviewer is at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA. E-mail: awolfe{at}chemheritage.org

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